Welcome to the Forum on World Class IT podcast series, a collection of exclusive interviews with Chief Information Officers and other IT industry thought leaders. Learn from the experts on how best to establish a truly World Class IT organization.

In this interview, Aaron Levie, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Box, a leader in online file sharing and cloud content management, discusses World Class IT principle one, People, principle two, Infrastructure, and principle five, External Partnerships, with Metis Strategy. Some of the topics discussed include:

Themes of the upcoming BoxWorks conference

Box’s ability to attract and retain top talent from other IT firms

Box’s focus on delivering enterprise IT solutions through a consumer IT approach

Eye on the Trends: Yesterday’s competitors are becoming today’s partners in IT. As consumers and enterprises demand more flexibility, connectivity, and functionality often from the same device, different solutions providers have to collaborate

In this interview, Stephanie von Friedeburg, CIO of the World Bank Group, discusses World Class IT principle one, People, principle two, Infrastructure, and principle five, External Partnerships, with Metis Strategy. Some of the topics discussed include:

Roles and Responsibilities within the World Bank Group

The challenges of collaboration within a very diverse set of employees

Her path to IT leadership without traditional education in the area

Cloud, and the way in which security at the World Bank addresses those technology trends

What she’s gained by being at “board level” within the bank and advising with Box.Org

Eye on the Trends: Data, and the digitization and structuring of existing data

In this interview, Celso Guiotoko, Alliance Global VP, Corporate Vice President, and CIO of Renault-Nissan, discusses World Class IT principle one, People, and principle four, IT & Business Partnerships, with Metis Strategy. Some of the topics discussed include:

In this interview, Taavi Kotka discusses World Class IT Principle One, People, World Class IT Principle Two, Infrastructure, and World Class IT Principle Five, External Partnerships. Some of the topics discussed include:

The conditions that enabled Estonia’s transformation into the world’s most advanced digital society

Taavi’s transition from CEO of one of the largest software development companies in the Baltic states to Estonian Government CIO, as well as some of the early projects he led

How blockchain technology can provide an extra layer of data security

How Estonia reduces friction for citizens by using regulation to encourage data sharing between government entities

The ways in which digital technology improves efficiency and simplifies life for Estonian citizens in areas such as healthcare, banking, taxes, education, voting, law enforcement, among others

How giving citizens control over their data creates a self-enforcing mechanism that protects privacy and provides security

The genesis of Estonia’s e-Residency program, and how it allows Estonia to grow its economy without relying on increased birth rates or immigration

Taavi’s view on the disruption of government and the future of digital society